Historical Museum

The beginning of the museum work in Chiprovtsi dates back to 1968 when two museum collections – both historical and artistic – were created in connection with the celebration of the 280 years since the Chiprovtsi Uprising, at the Probuda Chitalishte. In 1979, the Regional Directorate of Cultural Heritage – Mihaylovgrad proposed to open a specialized museum for the past of Chiprovtsi. Years later, on the occasion of the forthcoming celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Chiprovsky Uprising, the decision of May 20, 1986, announced the establishment of the Chiprovtsi History Museum – “Museum Collections to Become a Historical Museum of History”.

The museum have five exhibition hall.

The first hall is devoted to mining. Separate stages of mining and ore processing are presented, with an emphasis on the new technologies brought by Saxon Miners.

In the second hall, the works of the Chiprovtsi goldsmith school (XVI - XVII century) and their distribution on a European scale are shown.

The third hall presents the place and role of Catholicism in the life of Chiprovci in the seventeenth century - educational activity, diplomatic and missionary activity of the local higher Catholic clergy, the outbreak and course of the Chiprovtsi Uprising and the subsequent migratory movements in today's Romanian and Croatian lands.

In the fourth hall the main periods in the development of the Chiprovtsi carpet were traced.

And in the heel is exposed church painting.

The ethnographic exhibition of the museum today is housed in the Katherine’s House, where it is also the only living collection in the country with dyeing plants for carpets. Temporary exhibitions are held at the Punk’s House.